From_User not populated for AP Invoice Approval Workflow

Hello,
We are using the AP Invoice Approval and Requisition Approval workflows. When a supervisor grants their worklist authority to a requestor of a requisition the requestor is not allowed to approve their Req. This appears to be the correct action.
However when the same circumstances arise with AP Invoice Approvals the requestor of the invoice is allowed to approve their own invoice through the worklist delagation of their manager (these requestors do not have workflow admin privs.). We have noticed that the "From_user" is null on the wf_notifications table for APINV message types but not for REQAPPR message types.
Does anyone have insight into this difference in functionality?
Thanks,
Dan

Hi,
Using the Sysadmin responsibility, please submit "Workflow Background Process" with the below parameters and see if it helps:
Process Deferred: Y
Process Timeout: Y
Please also see the following notes;
How to Manually Process the Events from Workflow Queues When The Deferred Agent Listener Won't Start [ID 953103.1]
Workflow Background Process Does Not Progress Shipped Lines: Stuck in Fulfill - Deferred [ID 804133.1]
Hope this helps!
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